CTB: Re the recalcitrant fridge. If all else has failed have you tried reading the instructions?

When you see a player pull or hook off the front foot, in front of square, on a pitch this quick, against a bowler of 90mph, you know he's got something. Zak Crawley does just that to Anrich Nortje, sending him to mid-wicket as if he were a county trundler. A touch of Alec Stewart in that shot.

Obviously that was the first thing we did. After that we spent quite a while with the door open, talking to it, persuading it to work.

Paterson gets some extra bounce at Sibley, who shoulders arms and is hit on the back thigh.

Andy Prosser: Have you or future Mrs S turned it off and on again?

Eng 7-0published at 10:58 Greenwich Mean Time 26 January 2020

10:58 GMT 26 January 2020

Other supermarkets sell tinned goods too.

Now then, this doesn't look great. Vernon Philander has pulled up in his follow-through. He thinks he can carry on, but Faf du Plessis tells him to get checked out. It looks like his left leg. Dane Paterson will complete the over.

Nortje has probably been South Africa's player of the series. He bowls rockets and has frequently shown the heart of a lion as nightwatchman. He squares Sibley up with the final ball of the over, but all he has to show for it is a thick edge to the third man fence.

Daniel Norcross
The Cricket Social

If Zak Crawley reaches 67 runs he will become the first man in the history of Test cricket to increase his personal best score in every innings he has played in his first six matches.

I like the fact I have been referred to as 'Steph'. A new level of familiarity to the live text. I won't be taking a drill to my fridge, though.

Anrich Nortje is sharing the new ball.

Billy Cooper leads Jerusalem in his last overseas Test as the Barmy Army's trumpeter. Make the most of him, because we won't know what we've got until it's gone. Similarly, this is Philander's last innings as a Test bowler. He'll be blowing off front pads up and down the County Championship this summer. A maiden to start.

Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent in Johannesburg

If they bat for 70 overs, score another 250 or 300, that will take us to lunchtime tomorrow. That's what I'd be looking for England to do.

But then again South Africa have a chance to bowl England out for 100 here and try and win the game.

Right then, England's batsmen are out there. Zak Crawley on strike, Vernon Philander with the ball. Only two slips. Sun shining. Let's play.

Also, me and the future Mrs S are currently left vexed by the state of our fridge-freezer. The freezer is working fine, but the fridge isn't, erm, fridging. It's currently nothing more than a cupboard. Suggestions on how to fix it would be very welcome.

On the subject of Mark Wood, and his revelation that his wife has been helping him by feeding the bowling machine, I've been thinking how it would go down if I asked the future Mrs Shemilt to do the same for me. I suspect I would have to sell it to her with the opportunity to pin me with the ball...

Nick James: Seems hard to find a more popular member of this group. So good to see a fully fit Mark Wood bowling like this.

I have it on good authority that England are actually considering refrigerating Mark Wood until the next Ashes tour. Like Austin Powers.

Kumuran Ravendradas: Whatever we have to do; freezing, bubble wrap, cotton wool make sure we protect that man Wood's body until the next Ashes. Australia, like South Africa here, will not know what has hit them. The cricket equivalent of having a couple Vulcan bombers in your armoury.

Decision confirmed.

Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley are strapping the mums and dads on.

Settle in.